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Sailfish

Sailfish

Sailfish is a tool to estimate the abundance of gene isoforms using reference sequences and RNA-seq data sets. The Sailfish uses an alignment-free algorithm and k-mers.

Topic

RNA-Seq; RNA; Sequencing; Transcriptomics

Details

  • Operation: RNA-Seq analysis; RNA-Seq quantification
  • Software interface: Command-line user interface
  • Language: C++;C
  • Operating system: Linux
  • License: GNU General Public License v3
  • Cost: Free
  • Version name: 0.9.2
  • Credit: US National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
  • Contact: Rob Patro rob.patro _at_ cs.stonybrook.edu | Steve Mount RNAinfo _at_ yahoo.com | Steve Mount smmount _at_ gmail.com
  • Collection: -

Publications

Patro R, Mount SM, Kingsford C "Sailfish enables alignment-free isoform quantification from RNA-seq reads using lightweight algorithms." Nat Biotechnol. 2014 May;32(5):462-4. https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2862
PMID: 24752080
PMCID: PMC4077321


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